Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1984. Mansion.

Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1984
Type
Mansion
Address
Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt, Main Street
OS grid reference
SP 645 251
Coordinates
51.92123, -1.06317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Poundon House, along with the walls of the terrace and forecourt, is a mansion dated 1908, built by the local firm Lewis Penn for J.P.H. Heywood-Lonsdale Esq. The house is constructed from dressed ironstone and features a plinth, a moulded band course, chamfered quoins, and a wooden eaves cornice supported by brackets. It has a hipped stone slate roof and dressed stone chimneys with square shafts set diagonally. The building is designed in the style of around 1700 and has an H-plan layout, with two storeys and an attic.

The southeast front consists of nine bays, with the two outer bays on each side projecting. It has barred sash windows with architrave surrounds, and the ground floor windows are adorned with keyblocks. The slightly projecting centre bay features a pediment with wooden mouldings, and there are glazed and barred double doors in an architrave surround, complete with an entablature and a swan-neck pediment. The two attic dormers have five-light leaded casements topped with small central pediments.

To the right, there is a U-plan service wing that includes a basement, a main storey with cross windows, and hipped dormers with paired leaded casements. The garden walls attached to the front corners of the house curve around to form a relieving wall of the terrace. These walls are made of ironstone and include rusticated gate piers. The rear of the house, which faces the road, has an irregular layout featuring a Serlian window to the left of centre, groups of three sash windows to the right, and an open pediment above the centre bay. The door is flanked by Doric pilasters, topped with a triglyph entablature and a segmental pediment. There are also low ironstone walls attached to the forecourt.

Local climate

Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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